When the loftiest heights have been climbed and the darkest corners of Hades explored, when love and intoxication have been sung about in all pitches, then with Florence Welch you end up where we mere mortals hang out: in the kitchen. There stands Welch, Ophelia-esque mistress of the Florence And The Machine project, at the start of DANCE FEVER, arguing about whether or not to have children.
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“King” is the name of the single that puts on the agenda what Welch was concerned with: family planning, ticking biological clocks, things like that. The queen of pompous walle-dress pop still doesn’t stoop to kitchen-sink realism. Nevertheless, their fifth album has become a raw, rugged, even intimate affair by their standards. “Heaven Is Here” rumbles sparsely and intensely; A subtle noise guitar is breathing down the neck of the dreamlike soul piece “Girls Against God”.
Sometimes Welch duets with herself like the early Lorde on songs that sound tightly produced but never overly full-on, often singing unaffectedly and free of prima donna ambitions – and doing it as great as ever. “I am no mother, I am no bride, I am King,” says King. Not a bad interim balance of an (artist) life.
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